Gates Anticipates Windows 7, New Interfaces

This week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates provided a peek at some of Microsoft's thinking regarding Windows 7 and new computing interfaces:

"At the D: All Things Digital event, [Gates] said the expansion of user interfaces beyond the keyboard will have a far reaching impact on computing. 'In the next few years, the roles of speech, gesture, vision, ink, all of those will become huge. For the person at home and the person at work, that interaction will change dramatically,' Gates said."

ChannelWeb readers are busy weighing in, offering their critiques of Vista and their evaluations of OS alternatives:

"We are going in the wrong direction if the features touted for a new OS are interface based! An OS should be rock solid, should completely isolate the core services..."

"I switched to Ubuntu Linux and since never looked back. My dreams and desires in an OS have been both met, exceeded and I can't wait to see what happens next."

"What customers are actually demanding... is a secure, stable OS that works without getting in their way."

"I like XP, I also like my iPod Touch as a handy, portable web viewer, but real life touch isn't going anywhere."

"The only thing the other OS's have going for them is no one uses them--so no one bothers to hack them."

"XP SP2 is the best operating system windows has come out with so far, ... I don't think we will see one as good for a while yet."

Earlier, we asked Could Microsoft 'Blink' On Vista?, and keep releasing XP Service Packs? I'd say it now looks more likely Microsoft's turned their attention to the next Next Big Thing.

Posted by Joe Caponi at 11:05 AM, May 29, 2008

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